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Bellator Signs Heavyweight KO Artists Ewerton Teixeira and Lorenzo Hood

Bellator MMA on Monday announced that it has inked two of the hardest-hitting heavyweights around.

Brazilian K-1 champion Ewerton Teixeira and Blackzilians bomber Lorenzo Hood are now part of the Viacom-owned promotion’s heavyweight roster. Though it might make sense to line them up opposite one another, debut dates and opponents were not announced for either fighter.

A third dan black belt in Kyokushin karate, the 33-year-old Teixeira (3-0) has been racking up titles in striking competitions for more than a decade. Teixeira reached the pinnacle of stand-up fighting in 2008, when he earned that year’s K-1 World Grand Prix in Fukuoka title and then fought his way to the K-1 World Grand Prix Final’s championship bout, where he would come up just short against Errol Zimmerman (though Teixeira would avenge that result in 2010).